The title comes from post work on photos. I went out for my Saturday and Sunday walks within a 1/2 hour of the same time, the harsh light of 10:00 AM. I did what I could on the photo front. Here are some images I took along the way...
Saturday, February 7th.
Azalea flowers.
Eastern redbud.
This was the second year I was out for a walk in the local arboretum and the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department was out training search and rescue (SAR) dogs. There was a small plastic crate for carrying milk bottles that I passed, it was turned upside down and had a sock in it. I was too far away to go back once it dawned on me... son of a gun, an odd sock.
Osteospermum. This is one of the spots where I have collected seeds for these plants now flowering in front of my driveway.
Apparently Mockingbirds either can't read or they simply don't care.
Aeonium arboreum.
Palo verde flowers in a cactus.
Male Allen's hummingbird (Selasphorus sasin). His name is Laukki.
For this scrub jay I rather clumsily switched the Playlist on my iPhone to one I have called "Wild Birds." These are all MP3s of bird calls I found on the web one day just about a year ago. I chose birds that I frequently run into for the expressed purpose of talking to them from my phone. The real clumsy part was going from headphones to speaker on the phone since I've never voluntarily done that, certainly not on the fly, and Apple has to make everything hidden, tiny and I don't think necessarily all that intuitive. Anyway, I accomplished that part of the mission and was able to get this jay to come back my way after it had flown off out of vision. The srcub jay call was actually downloaded in the fall of 2021. I first used the scrub jay recording when I would see my friends Bowie and her mate, Mr. Bowie across the street from my house. I would use the recording from just outside my front door and get them into the backyard and treat them with acorns, etc.
Laukki again, along with my continuing struggle with the light.
Opossum cruising a construction site on campus.
Mourning dove.
Sunday (today), February 8th.
Wrinkled or crumpled wings on a butterfly, particularly monarchs, often indicate infection by the parasite Ophryocystis elektroscirrha (OE), just mentioned last week. I thought at first it may have been newly emerged from its cocoon until I also noticed tiny black spots which are a sign of the infection. Hey, it bummed me out too.
This is a California towhee (Melozone crissalis), AKA, a Grumpy bird.
A walking mocking'. This is likely a female.
This would be her slightly larger mate looking on.
Nearby and a reason for some fuss from the mockingbirds, yesterday's jay.
That's all. Average for the two walks was 2.3 miles and it was really nice to get out. Noted in the complaint department here, I finally got the wands and brush/mop head for my steam cleaner and have been engaged in rupturing the enemy's defensive line on the front and from multiple dispersed locations to disrupt their cohesion. Also, freakin' brutal torture on my back.
This is the song that took me back to my car for the drive home.
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